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Adak

American  
[ey-dak] / ˈeɪ dæk /

noun

  1. an island in SW Alaska, in the Andreanof group of the Aleutian Islands.


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If either volcano erupts, the closest community affected would be Adak, 65 miles from the volcanoes.

From Washington Times • Mar. 10, 2023

Lily, 11, and Anna, 8, sisters who live on remote Adak Island, Alaska, spent the year extraordinarily separate from the world.

From Washington Post • Sep. 30, 2021

Home to the native Aleut people, Adak became a U.S.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 10, 2021

Senior West Bengal police official Dilip Kumar Adak told the AFP news agency the four men resembled the photographs and sketches of the suspects which had been circulated.

From BBC • Apr. 1, 2015

He then enlisted in the Navy, where over five years he learned Russian and was stationed on the Aleutian island of Adak decoding Russian communications.

From New York Times • Jan. 24, 2014